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Bergson was an evolutionist, neo-Hereclitian, who thought that change, not being ( esse ), was the fundamental truth of reality. He had it backwards: Being presupposes change (not the converse)!
Jacques Maritain was an ex-Bergsonian, Thomist convert.
The fullest expression of the distinguished French philosopher's ideas about the meaning of life. In propounding his distinctive theory of evolution, Bergson considers nature and intelligence, examines mechanisms of thought and illusion, and presents a criticism of philosophical systems from those of the ancients to those of his 19th-century contemporaries.
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This test represents the proceedings of a symposium by the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of life at the University of California, Los Angeles in March, 1993. Six leading evolutionists discuss the creativity of the evolutionary process.
While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically. If...we could ask and it could reply, it would give up to us the most intimate secrets of life. -from Chapter II Anticipating not only modern scientific theories of psychology but also those of cosmol
First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsonβs LβΓ©volution crΓ©atrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergsonβs most important
First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'volution cratrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson's most important a